WiFi Help
Location
- Place your router as close as possible to the area where you are working.
- If you put your router along an outside wall, you’re sending half your signal outside.
- Keep it elevated and free from any physical obstructions like furniture and appliances.
- Avoid reflective surfaces like glass, mirrors, and metal.
- Walls, especially those made of concrete, can also severely degrade your Wi-Fi signal.
- Adjust your router’s antennas. Your router’s antenna is omnidirectional, so the signal goes every direction equally.
Interferences
- Routers often compete for airwaves with other household devices.
- Rival devices can include cordless phones, Bluetooth speakers, microwave ovens, and baby monitors.
Security
- If your network is Open (no security) change the security setting. An open network will make it easy for someone to steal your Wi-Fi.
- If your network is using WEP, change the security setting. Older WEP security is easily hacked.
If you need to check out an LBUSD WiFi Hot Spot, call Franklin @ (562) 435-4952 for a lunch appointment to check out a WiFi hot spot.
If you have a WiFi Hot Spot, turn off your home WiFi. You can't use both at once because they interfere with each other.
Call (562) 315-8083 for additional hot spot help from the district.